Q Magazine's Scores

  • Music
For 8,545 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 A Hero's Death
Lowest review score: 0 Gemstones
Score distribution:
8545 music reviews
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Their music lacks any trace of sophistication or nuance. [Apr 2006, p.112]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At times the '60s girl-group feel can prove grating, but there's enough here to suggest a future beyond the indie ghetto. [Jul 2006, p.112]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The River In Reverse's soulful arrangements and warm textures are no surprise. [Jul 2006, p.113]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    One album might have served better than two. [Jun 2006, p.116]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Surely a man of his talent has more to offer than this? [Sep 2006, p.109]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Weird and wonderful. [May 2006, p.129]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [They] have stretched their wings. [Jun 2006, p.119]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Textbook soft rock. [Jul 2006, p.111]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A pleasure, featuring some of his most winging music since [Roisin] Murphy's Ruby Blue. [Jul 2006, p.118]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Many of the collaborations are jarring. [Jul 2006, p.115]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It could be high art. It could be utter bollocks. Either way, it's lovely when it's over. [Jun 2006, p.119]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The bulk sounds little different from most of what passes for mainstream country these days. [Jul 2006, p.113]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    These broiling drum-led riffs offer curdled cries, much volume and even humour. [Aug 2006, p.113]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If It's Never Been Like That sees them rocking out by their own standards, they're still a sweat-free prospect by most others. [Jun 2006, p.118]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This is an album steeped in classicism while still creating its own world. It just lacks the killer song. [Oct 2006, p.127]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This homebrewed, spacious music can still sound pretty blissful, but the quality songs have a directness and variety that will please David Gray fans as much as the acid folk devotees. [Jul 2006, p.119]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's neither deep nor meaningful, but Broken Boy Soldiers succeeds in sounding like four guys having fun making music; albeit music that's as elegant as it is raucous. [Jun 2006, p.108]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's frustrating when you know they can do better. [Jul 2006, p.116]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Powder Burns could be a sister album to Black Love, [Afghan Whigs'] career high. [Jun 2006, p.114]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    II
    Music that sounds completely out of time, made by an often incredible string band. [Sep 2006, p.108]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It sounds lovely. And yet it is also crying out for Fraser's otherworldly quaver to give it a much-needed extra dimension. [Jul 2006, p.114]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's good to have his unique groove back. [Jun 2006, p.116]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sexsmith's best record since his self-titled second album of 1995. [Jun 2006, p.119]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This is essentially a couple of singles spread way too thinly. [Jun 2005, p.110]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    St Elsewhere rivals Gorillaz' Demon Days for sheer inventiveness. [Jun 2006, p.109]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A revelation, brimming with passion and some of the best melodies Young has penned in the last 30 years. [Jul 2006, p.113]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's prevented from turning fancy by its grounding in some rudimentary rock dynamics. [May 2006, p.122]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While there are hints of tiredness, Grandaddy are not leaving us with heads bowed. [Jun 2006, p.116]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their cut-ups... work best when at their most odd. [Jun 2006, p.117]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Represents a career high for the Chili Peppers. [Jun 2006, p.106]
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